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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 573515, member: 111&quot;]Was looking for a mark on something else and ran across Rezazadeh&#039;s &#039;Collectible Silver Jewelry&#039; (2001) in the small stash of my books that are here at Mom&#039;s, and looking through, found it shows filigree and niello pieces from the &#039;40s with both &#039;Iran&#039; and &#039;Iraq&#039;, one piece shown described as bearing the mark of an Ahvaz, Iran based silversmith family &#039;Sob&#039;he&#039;.&nbsp; It&#039;s not a bad book, with a nice variety of pieces, originally purchased it for the Scandinavian section, but did find limited use for me, with some of the errors, ommisions and assumptions troubling, though he does sometimes note being unsure of information.</p><p><br /></p><p>A very quick search for Mandaean silversmiths in Ahvaz found this PDF from the Liverpool Museum that mentions a Mandaean blacksmith there, and includes a section on Mandaean silversmiths, with the last pic a current working smith in Ahvaz:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.mandaeanunion.org/images/MAU/History/Liverpol%20museum_The%20mandaeans.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.mandaeanunion.org/images/MAU/History/Liverpol%20museum_The%20mandaeans.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.mandaeanunion.org/images/MAU/History/Liverpol museum_The mandaeans.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This page, from a research project at the University of Exeter, shows the same gentleman and his work in gold and silver:&nbsp; <a href="http://mandaeanpriests.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/112" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mandaeanpriests.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/112" rel="nofollow">http://mandaeanpriests.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/112</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This page on LookLex mentions small groups of Mandaeans in Ahvaz:&nbsp; <a href="http://looklex.com/e.o/mandaeism.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://looklex.com/e.o/mandaeism.htm" rel="nofollow">http://looklex.com/e.o/mandaeism.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]173473[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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